Mapping the landscape and structure of global research on binge eating disorder: Visualization and bibliometric analysis

Table 1 List the top ten core countries publishing the most documents on binge-eating disorder

Ranking	Country	Number of documents	%
1st	United States	1495	55.11
2nd	Italy	256	9.44
3rd	United Kingdom	183	6.75
4th	Germany	182	6.71
5th	Canada	157	5.79
6th	Australia	127	4.68
7th	Brazil	101	3.72
8th	Spain	59	2.17
9th	Switzerland	58	2.14
10th	France	57	2.10

Table 2 List the top ten core institutions publishing the most documents on binge-eating disorder

Ranking	Institution	Country	n	%
1st	Yale School of Medicine	United States	172	6.34
2nd	Yale University	United States	116	4.28
3rd	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	United States	91	3.35
4th	Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo	United States	85	3.13
5th	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	70	2.58
6th	Harvard Medical School	United States	67	2.47
7th	University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	United States	65	2.40
8th	Columbia University	United States	60	2.21
9th	University of North Dakota	United States	56	2.06
10th	Stanford University School of Medicine	United States	53	1.95

Table 3 List the top ten core funding agencies that have the most documents on binge-eating disorder

Ranking	Funding agencies	Country	n	%
1st	National Institutes of Health	United States	562	20.72
2nd	U.S. Department of Health and Human Services	United States	537	19.79
3rd	National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases	United States	319	11.76
4th	National Institute of Mental Health	United States	289	10.65
5th	National Institute on Drug Abuse	United States	71	2.62
6th	Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development	United States	39	1.44
7th	National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism	United States	36	1.33
8th	Shire	United Kingdom	32	1.18
9th	National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences	United States	31	1.14
9th	National Institute of Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute	United States	31	1.14

Table 4 List the top ten core journals that have the most documents on binge-eating disorder

Ranking	Journal	n	%	IF1
1st	International Journal of Eating Disorders	398	14.67	3.668
2nd	Eating Behaviors	139	5.12	2.156
3rd	Appetite	94	3.46	3.608
4th	European Eating Disorders Review	85	3.13	3.560
5th	Eating and Weight Disorders	67	2.47	3.634
6th	Behaviour Research and Therapy	48	1.77	4.500
7th	Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology	45	1.66	4.632
8th	Obesity	40	1.47	3.742
9th	Comprehensive Psychiatry	35	1.29	2.567
10th	Eating Disorders	33	1.22	2.013
10th	Journal of Clinical Psychiatry	33	1.22	4.204
10th	Physiology and Behavior	33	1.22	2.826
10th	Psychiatry Research	33	1.22	2.118

¹Impact factor (IF) from 2020 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics).

Table 5 List of the top 10 cited articles for studies related to binge-eating disorder

Ranking	Ref.	Year	Source title	Cited by	Impact index per article1
1st	Heatherton and Baumeister[6]	1991	Psychological Bulletin	1454	7.4
2nd	Gormally et al[6]	1982	Addictive Behaviors	1292	29.1
3rd	Spitzer et al[6]	1993	International Journal of Eating Disorders	686	17.2
4th	Spitzer et al[6]	1992	International Journal of Eating Disorders	659	17.3
5th	Kessler et al[1]	2013	Biological Psychiatry	602	64.4
6th	Stice et al[6]	2002	Health Psychology	531	23.3
7th	Stice et al[6]	2000	Psychological Assessment	506	0.7
8th	Telch et al[70]	2001	Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology	473	19.4
9th	Halmi et al[7]	1981	Psychological Medicine	465	34.2
10th	Fairburn et al[7]	2000	Archives of General Psychiatry	458	16.7

¹The impact index per article is presented based on Reference Citation Analysis [Source: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. (Pleasanton, CA 94566, United States)].